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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life By Marshall B. Rosenberg ( Puddledancer Press )
Release Date: 2003-09-01
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Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence. Nonviolent Communication partners practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacefully.
In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts and heal pain. Revolutionary, yet simple, NVC offers you the most effective tools to reduce violence and create peace in your life—one interaction at a time.
Over 150,000 copies sold and now available in 20 languages around the world. More than 250,000 people each year from all walks of life are learning these life-changing skills.
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 A Needed Corrective in a Violent Society
In the distant past, when I was training for work as a therapist, Carl Rogers was one of my gurus. Rogers' concept of absolute respect for the client helped me assist persons and couples in reaching their potential. I am delighted to find Marshall Rosenberg's book--a book that lifts Rogers' concepts out of the therapeutic setting and establishes it in the world of common communication. His writing is clear, and his examples are helpful. I recently used this book in a class that was examining ways of establishing islands of non-violence in a violence-saturated society.
I have one complaint. Rosenberg implies that a careful use of nonviolent communication could rid our relationships of anger. Anger can, indeed, be destructive. Anger needs to be channeled, not eliminated, and nonviolent communication can assist in achieving this goal. But eliminating it altogether? Is there a spouse in this universe who wants to be married to someone who never becomes angry?
So I encourage people to read and respond to this fine book. Know, however, that nonviolent communication, while it can deepen and enrich our relationships, will not turn those relationships into a boring flatness.
Andrew J. (Jack) Good, Roanoke, Virginia
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 How to communicate in life-giving ways.
This book is based on a foundation of hope--the assumption that people want to be life-giving in their interactions with others. When interactions are not life-giving there is something that is blocking this basic human desire. Rosenburg describes in practical ways how to communicate so as to remove barriers that arise. There are even practice lessons. I have found this book to be one I go back to time and again.
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New Skills
This is an down to earth, practical tool for improving your ability to communicate well with other human beings, those close to you and those in situations in which you are connected in other ways. Using ways to clearly convey needs and notice the needs of others is a desperately essential requirement in a warring world. Well worth your attention and practice.
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Enlightening, challenging, inspiring, educationally practical
"Nonviolent communications: A Language of Life" is an update to an ancient philosophy of life, seldom practised, that empowers one to become aware of the links between language and emotion from which physical and psychological violence in human life originate. What makes Rosenberg's update worth reading is its articulation of a means of recognizing the clues in our selection and interpretation of language that reveal our real human needs. The book offers a framework for gently uncovering the "viruses of language form" in which we either lose ourselves or ignore others in unwitting ignorance. It reveals, by extensive reference to Rosenberg's own rich experience in mediation and conflict resolution around the world, how these conventions of form often obscure our true needs and those of others rather than help us discover what these needs really are so that we can cooperate to get them met.
Acknowledging that the insight and empathy, whether for other or self, required to do this is rare, Rosenberg's book will nevertheless be an enlightenment for almost all of us of an extraordinarily practical kind. More than a challenge, it is also an inspiration to try out the "NVC skills of language and listening" he both practices and skillfully advocates. It only leaves us wondering where we are likely to be reasonably safe doing so.
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Incredible guide to Joyous Living & Giving ( hally@dataprompt.com )
To me, Nonviolent Communication, the book, is a superb guide to healing, and life, helping me to be how I want to be in the world. I had a hard time with the language the first time I read it, and I know that some of it could be said more beautifully, but I've read it several times now (the second time I started with the last chapter I liked it more than the first), and given it to people. Here's why:
When I read this book, I found an assertion -- all human beings, just like you, wish for their own well-being AND for others' well-being AND take joy in being able to contribute to others' well-being. This is a core value or belief for me and I suspect that if you really can't accept that premise, the book would not be so useful and healing.
The book goes on to show examples of thinking that gets in the way of living this core value. Most wonderful of all, it offers tools to help us live in accordance with our values. Some of the tools are: the idea that feelings point to met or unmet needs; the list of needs; the differentiation of needs from strategies to meet needs; examples of how to find the feelings and needs in some common scenarios; the insistence on separating observations from judgments; the idea of listening for the needs underlying a person's words; the explanation of feelings as having internal origin rather than being 'caused' by others, etc.
The huge steps I've taken in the past 3 years toward peace, self-acceptance, and realization of my potential seem to have come from attending workshops and classes based on this book. When I re-read Nonviolent Communication, I find bits I missed the other times.
The chapter on self-empathy is particularly helpful on the problem of self-acceptance. I always had a lot of trouble with the mantras of "You deserve....", "You have a right..." Dr. Rosenberg helps me see all parts of myself, which helps me make choices that are aligned with all my values.
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